I think Ole got very close to 1kg didn't he ? Within 83 grams or something i remember.

There's those Mavic Carbon hush hush wheels which are apparently sub 1kg - but good luck getting a set. Your going to need something like Ti spokes, very very light hubs and an expensive rim so your options are those carbon ones or the Stan 7000 Race ones. I think Ole even resorted to using full ceramic bearing in the hubs to drop more grams - but there about £50 EACH and you'd need 4-6.

Yeah; edge made a nice pair of TUBULARS. Cool if you only ever want to have two tires to choose from and are fully supported on race courses made of marshmallows! Sorry, that came out a little angry.

But I think that the sub 1200g boundary is pretty easy to reach for 26". I built the GF a set of King classic (non-disc) hubs to ZTR 355s with 32 Pillar Ti spokes and it came in at like 1270.With hubs that arent really that light I was pleasantly suprised.

1210g for a fully built wheelset at $950 aint bad. I sold a pair to one of our customers who didnt have time to get a wheel built and hes been pleased enough to come back and order the same wheelset in 29" for his other mtb.

If you really wanted to have fun though you could do the Tune King/Kong or Prince/Princess deal with Pillar spokes and whatever light rim (stans, Kinlin, whatever) and have a really fast, superlight set of wheels.

I have a sub-1000g wheelset planned. I already have the 89g front hub and 170g rear hub ready, and 200g ti-spokes (Marwi 2.0 on front left and rear right, Pillar 1422 for the other sides), 20g nipples, which adds up to 479g. If the InnoLite rims indeed weigh 250g each, I'm under 1000g. The goal is to make a wheelset that I can race on, and I weigh 80kg. My 1080g wheelset has lasted for one and a half season now.

thanks for the good news - lets see some pictures of your wheels, Ole!!!!!

I had a Tune King/Kong Superscharff hubs/Pillar titanium spokes/Sun Limelite rims (328 grams) wheelset and they were about 1260 grams so sub 1000 grams surely needs other hubs than Tune and about 250 grams rims.

The front is a 28h Extralite with ceramic bearings, weighing 89g. The rear is a prototype, currently with 2 ceramic and 2 hybrid ceramic bearings, weighing in at 170g. Both hubs are straight pull, 28h.

I'm still waiting for the rims.

I guess I'll be doing the initial testing with studded tires, just as with my last wheels.

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